engatou　円瓦当

KEY WORD :　architecture / roofing tiles

Also called *gatou 瓦当. The circular pendant tiles attached to semi-circular convex eave-end tiles *nokimarugawara 軒丸瓦. In ancient China but very rarely in Japan, there were also semi-circular gatou. The term engatou is only used for the circular pendant but gatou can be used for either the pendant on a circular tile or on the broad concave tile called *nokihiragawara 軒平瓦.

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